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The Administration says then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants.
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National Tea Party Convention keynote speech, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010-02-06, quoted in "Palin: "We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at the lectern"", Media Matters for America, 6 February 2010  and "The qualities of Sarah Palin", The Economist: 58, 4 December 2010 
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